Thursday, July 14, 2005 AD My New Self-Diagnostic Question "If I'm still doing this when I'm 80, will I look like a crazy old lady?" That's a question I asked myself today about one of my sillier idiosyncrasies: I never put the pretty paper clips on things I give to other people. You know...the ones that are color-coated. I hoard them. I realized today, as I was digging through my clip tray for plain silver ones to assemble some collated print-outs that if I were an 80-year-old lady doing this, people would think I'd gone 'round the bend. Then I realized it's not really any saner for a 37-year-old lady to be obsessing over paper clips. It's just selfishness. I want to keep all the nice, pretty things for me, and not share my toys with the other children. It's a petty, petty thing, but it reflects something sinfully askew in my heart. By the time I got to the end of my collating, I was using the pretty ones. And if you catch me hoarding when I'm 80, before you cart me away, first tell me to repent. Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 7/14/2005 06:21:00 PM
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